I know that all that brave earnest men can do for a poor weak woman, whose soul perhaps is lost—no, no, not yet, but is at any rate at stake—you will do.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

No objections are made to hunting, inasmuch as it dispenses with drafts upon the smoke-house, and because every marauding coon that is killed is so much saved from the standing corn.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

But the truth of the matter lies deeper; for it can be explained more clearly than appears at first sight.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Or fancy’s beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Jul. Caesar Claudinus, Mercurialis, Frambesarius, Sennertus, &c. Wherein he shall find particular receipts, the whole method, preparatives, purgers, correctors, averters, cordials in great variety and abundance: out of which, because every man cannot attend to read or peruse them, I will collect for the benefit of the reader, some few more notable medicines. SUBSECT.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

From her he gets health, brain, encouragement, moral character, and all his chances of success.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“No doubt, no doubt, little baron,” exclaimed Master Cold 52 Soul, “but be not offended.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Thus science, art, and philosophy developed and became ever more closely related in him, until, in The Birth of Tragedy, they brought forth a "centaur," that is to say, a work which would have been an impossible achievement to a man with only a single, special talent.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I took the canoe upon my head and found that I could 208 carry it with ease, though the straps were not fitted to my shoulders; but I let him carry it, not caring to establish a different precedent, though he said that if I would carry the canoe, he would take all the rest of the baggage, except my companion's.
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

Queer little squirrel-like beggars are these burrowers; the resemblance would be even more complete were it not for the short spigot-shaped tails they jerk so comically
— from Saddle and Mocassin by Francis Francis

He is all; the worlds, time and space are "aspects" which He assumes from time to time [15] ; for this reason it has been said that the Universe is an illusion, which may be expressed more clearly by saying that it is an illusion to believe that what exists is not one form of divine activity, an "aspect" of God.
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

"Something in the positive way he spoke pleased her again for she smiled bewitchingly, effacing me completely.
— from Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs

However, next day, toward afternoon, Ransome called on him at the works, in considerable excitement, and told him a new firm had rented large business premises in Manchester, obtained goods, insured them in the “Gosshawk,” and then the premises had caught fire and the goods been burned to ashes; suspicions had been excited; Mr. Carden had gone to the spot and telegraphed for him.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

At this rate they will soon begin eating my clothes!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To say all this to a common Indian, whose only property was a dozen ponies and a couple of tepees, required something very like moral courage; but then Armour had not been exercising moral courage during the last year or so, and its exercise was profitable to him.
— from The Translation of a Savage, Complete by Gilbert Parker

n a quick flash of thought that crimsoned the young girl's face passed through her mind: "yet I should like my husband to be even more clever and well informed than papa."
— from Englefield Grange; or, Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B., Mrs.

The social life, if it is to be effective, must constantly be brought under the influence of dramatic stimuli.
— from The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge